Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

337. What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous women?

David Hume (1711-1776)

Essay XIV, The Rise of Arts and Sciences

338. Help refused
Is hindrance sought and found.

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Ferishtah’s Fancies, Two Camels

339. Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, the gnomèd mine —
Unweave a rainbow.

John Keats (1795-1821)

Lamia, II

340. Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Essay on Criticism, Pt II, line 133

341. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III

342. What cannot be eschew’d, must be embrac’d.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Merry Wives of Windsor (Page), Act V, Scene V